It surely depends on the model. I’ve seen great results with Claude 4.5, Gemini 3 and GPT 5+. I’m lucky to have all them accessible thru GitHub CoPilot Pro.
But I agree. Giving the best context with your instructions surely makes a difference.
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Can you run MSR on Home Assistant OS ?It’s just the first phase that’s complicate. In terms of every day operations, it’s very easy to manage and automate. Plus, no need to backup the entire vm but you’re good with just data and less memory/cpu intensive by design. Worth to explorer when doing a major re-design imho.
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HA and AIYou do. And I will upgrade my observation that it's wrong / produces code that simply doesn't work far far more often than it produces correct code. So I feel a certain kinship
Saves me bothering the experts here, and actually is helping learn a lot faster since the iterations are quicker.
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Can you run MSR on Home Assistant OS ?You can't (sensibly) install additional, non supported things on HAOS
Docker is powerful, but feels rather like a steep learning curve in this case (as mentioned) I'd either get a couple of old NUCs from ebay, or get a decent(ish) NAS with VM capability. Much simpler IMHO
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How to upgrade from an old version of MSR?Couple of observations:
- You don't need to start from ground up HA plays really nicely with MSR and Vera. You can slide over as slowly as you like (I think I was running for nearly 2 years before I got the time to move it all
- I've been playing with AI as well (saves me bugging the brains trust here) Chat GPT and Claude. Although Claude is better they are both wrong FAR MORE often than they are right. I've been through 20+ iterations of code, every time being told 'This will absolutely work' and it doesn't
That's not a massive issue as I sort of know what I'm doing, but I absolutely would not expect any AI at this point to be able to set you up a complete HA set up from scratch.
As for Proxmox it does seem to be very popular. I'm not sure why as it's kind of complex (or looks that way to me after very limited study) I'm running my VMs on my Synology NASs. They are protected on a UPS, and take a snapshot every night. Roll back to a working instance takes minutes if not seconds.
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How to upgrade from an old version of MSR?Yes to Zwave js ui. Zwa2 range is impressive. You’ll thank me later
There’s zigbee2mqtt that’s basically the same route as Zwave js and home assistant has a zigbee usb key as well.
Everything is then exposed and orchestrated via reactor.Regrading AI, I’m more and more offloading dev tasks to GitHub Copilot Agent inside VS Code and I love it. I have a special chat with custom instructions for reactor where I ask about logic guidance and checks. This is the sort of tasks that generative AI excels at.
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This trigger no longer working - complaining about the operator needing changingDon't forget to hard refresh your browser as well.
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How to upgrade from an old version of MSR?@cw-kid exactly. You’ll be able to use in reactor as the entities coming from other controllers, or in home assistant for your dashboards.
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This trigger no longer working - complaining about the operator needing changingOK. That's easy to address.
- Stop Reactor
- Delete the entire
storage/entitiessubdirectory (no others, just that one) - Restart Reactor
This will force all Controller-based entities to be rebuilt, like the motion sensor was, just in bulk.
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This trigger no longer working - complaining about the operator needing changing@cw-kid said in This trigger no longer working - complaining about the operator needing changing:
OK let me see if I can do that. You mean pressing the X here ? And then adding it back in to the trigger right?
No... Entities page... where you got the Copy Attributes output. There's a delete button there.
Delete the entity, then restart Reactor. It will come back, hopefully with
binary_sensorcapability.
